Love Enough to Share charities put in a lot of work

With one week left until Christmas, it’s time to get some gift shopping done if you haven’t already.

Volunteers for some local charities have to get started shopping pretty early each year.

Volunteers from three local churches who help out with the Foster Children’s Christmas Fund get shopping lists in September. Then they shop for presents for children in foster care in Alamance County so they can be picked up by foster parents in early December and put under the tree on Christmas Day.

It’s a similar story for volunteers with the Arc of Alamance County’s ArChristmas Fund and the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Operation Santa Claus. Both provide gifts for people living away from home for the holidays.

These are the kind of charities that Love Enough to Share, the annual Times-News holiday fundraiser, works to help.

Each year, we ask readers to contribute to one (or more) of six charities that we think do a great job meeting the need during the holidays. Along with the ArChristmas Fund, Operation Santa Claus and the Foster Children’s Christmas Fund, Love Enough to Share also benefits Residential Treatment Services of Alamance’s Santa’s Helper program, Christmas Cheer and The Salvation Army Shoes with Love program.

This year’s goal is $50,000. Every penny goes directly to the charities.

To participate in Love Enough to Share, look for the coupon with stories that will appear in the Times-News through the holidays.

Fill out the form and return it to the Times-News, Attn: Love Enough to Share, P.O. Box 481, Burlington, N.C. 27216. Contributions can also be dropped off at the newspaper office at 707 S. Main St.

Checks should be made out to the individual charities. The Times-News will send a complimentary card to honorees or, in the case of memorial contributions, to the family. Contributors will also be recognized in the newspaper, unless they request anonymity.

Donations received Monday include:

â–ª A $100 donation by Jerry, Faye, Jay and Amy Bayliff in memory of Eddie Harris

â–ª A $150 donation by Alamance-Burlington School System nurses in honor of Alamance-Burlington School System students

â–ª A $50 donation by John L. Jackson

â–ª A $50 anonymous donation in honor of Dot Jackson

â–ª A $50 donation by the Southern Alamance High School National Honor Society

â–ª A $100 anonymous donation in honor of HB, Courtney, Katie and Victor

â–ª A donation by Barbara DÂ’Anna in honor of Mayor Raymond Herring

â–ª A donation by Barbara DÂ’Anna in honor of Mary Hawk

â–ª A $100 donation by Boyd and Brenda in honor of Edith Payne

Page 2 of 2 - â–ª An $800 donation by Livvie and Becky Vann in honor of Bridget, Madeline and Christian

â–ª An anonymous donation in memory of Hilla Dixon

â–ª A donation by Louis Dixon in honor of V.B. Dixon family and spouses

â–ª A $50 donation by John Kemp in honor of all the volunteers at ARMC

â–ª A $35 donation by John Kemp in honor of the Thursday volunteer group at ARMC